Psalm 39:5 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁵ You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; And mine age is as nothing before thee: Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Behold, You have made my days as [short as] handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight. Truly every man at his best is merely a breath! Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

Common English Bible

⁵ You’ve made my days so short; my lifetime is like nothing in your eyes. Yes, a human life is nothing but a puff of air! Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.

Psalm 39:5 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, ‘The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.’

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai answered the king, ‘How many more years shall I live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

Job 7:6

‘My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 39:11

When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth – surely everyone is but a breath.

Psalm 62:9

Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher. ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.’

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

James 4:14

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.